by Sarcs | Feb 11, 2018 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
“Never laugh at live dragons.” ―J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbit A lack of foreknowledge is a very dangerous thing –well, it is. Think about it; it is probably one of the most dangerous things in the world. If you are standing on a railway track and don’t know there’s a...
by Sarcs | Feb 4, 2018 | Accidents and Inquiry, ATSB, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
The mirror crack’d from side to side; – AuntyPru Forum version. V Finally, the silence breaks and the phony war is over. The Oh so polite, delicate, diplomatic wrangling has come to it’s inevitable, sterile end and it is time to test the mettle of our...
by Sarcs | Jan 28, 2018 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged, Whimsy and Waffle
Napoleon Bonaparte in Paris Lost – perhaps in translation. – AP Forum version. This, from Wiki rang a bell. As the ‘third’ is one of my all time favourites, I followed up. Oh, the parallels – “I was the first to tell him the news that Buonaparte had declared...
by Sarcs | Jan 21, 2018 | Accidents and Inquiry
HVH – “..The other point I might add is the ATSB is very much the canary in the mine—and let me tell you, we will sing..” Speak softly; yonder, as I think, he walks. – AP Forum version. The Comedy of Errors – Wikipedia “I wonder; was he...
by Sarcs | Jan 14, 2018 | Accidents and Inquiry
Runway excursion – Boeing Co 747-438, VH-OJH, Bangkok Airport, Thailand, 23 September 1999 A candle, against darkness? – AP Forum version What a monstrous, dangerous, nebulous beast Fatigue is. No matter what approach you take ;or, how good the ‘research’...